Guys on Tinder Will Still Want to Bang You If You're a Crazy Person

When I was a young high-school whippersnapper, my friend and I grabbed an image from a quick Google search of "hot girl" and put her on JDate for a social experiment. The results may explain my cynical attitude towards dating as an adult: As we chatted with various men, we misspelled easy words, made egregious grammar errors, made the Hot Girl completely oblivious to any political issue she was asked about, and she was still asked out on dates. Like, a lot of dates.

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A woman named Emily Miller recently conducted a similar experiment with Tinder, an app intended for short-term hookups (sort of like a heterosexual Grindr). Rather than dithering around on OK Cupid or Match.com and falling into the "messages" curse (that annoying thing where the guy messages you like four times and doesn't ask you out and the whole thing was a total time-suck?) this promises direct contact immediately, as long as you both swipe "yes" on each others' profiles.

But Miller wasn't looking for a hookup, she just wanted to see how much insanity a dude would put up with in the hopes of getting laid. Tons. TONS. It'll make you feel better about all the times you feel like you put a guy off with your own weird foibles. The ichat you see here is just the tip of the iceberg. In one of them, she tells the guy she's talking to that she had a dream about his death. "I'm sorry if you thought that was too intense, but it really scared me. The man I love, dying. You were really brave. In my dream."

Him: "I do my best. Brave little toaster." (WHAT?)

In another one, she asks: "What are your parents' names? Do you have any cats?"

The guy rolls with it: "i don't have any, but I'd like some. My parents' names are Tina and Andrew."

And she tells a third: "Ooh, I love nicknames. I wanna call you Francine. Is that okay?"

As you can see, the responsive men often pretend that nothing strange has just gone down. ("That's nice. When can I penetrate you?") It's depressing! It's also totally liberating. I'll never worry about what I say on a date, ever again.

When the Daily Dot asked Miller about the reason behind her experiment, she said: "I think that women get stereotyped into being 'crazy' all of the time. Men are seldom accused of being the crazy ones. To put up with what I am putting down here is crazy."